Sunday, September 20, 2009

What Happens to Old Homeshool Moms?

They resurrect as a homeschool grandmom.

My life has changed drastically in the last two months. Our son Jason´s oldest daughter, M, was diagnosed with Leukemia. She was a thirteen year old, healthy girl trying out for the volleyball team for her first year in public school this year. What a blow, no volleyball, no first dance, no school, much less facing no hair. Those losses seem trite now to the loss of feeling good enough to sit up all day or see friends or just be home instead of the hospital.

My husband and I decided to help out by moving me to Houston. I am now in an apartment near our son´s house. Kim drives to Houston every weekend to see me. I am homeschooling M and her sister, L, every day. So from 8:00 to 3:00 or 4:00 or 5:00 they are here and we are learning tons of things. We do classes over the phone with their cousins in Seattle. A teaches Essay Writing, Shakespeare and Grammar-Vocabulary. I teach Spanish and History.

I help out when needed by the family, still play some tennis, and play the rented piano. I have a new ward to get involved with.

I will start blogging about some of the resources we are using and activities we do.

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GinnyTatiJohannaAmy

Ginny

I am the grandmother. I have five adult children that I homeschooled. I have 22 1/8 grandchildren. My three daughters homeschool their children. I live in Texas and none of my children live near us. So I teach Spanish classesto some of my grandchildren over the phone and internet. I love to teach Spanish so I teach groups of homeschooled children here also. I love to teach young children to read. I have taught eleven of my grandchildren to read. I alsolove teaching writing and am teaching some writing classes to homeschoolers here this year. In fact, I love teaching almost anything.

Tati

I am the youngest in our family. I was homeschooled until I went to 10th grade public school. I graduated from Brigham Young University in Elementary Education. I plan on homeschooling my children in both English and Spanish.